The photos started circulating last Wednesday, and many people assumed that they must be a joke: a female Muslim lawyer in Nigeria who wears the niqab published photos of herself wearing that Islamic garment, which conceals everything except the eyes. These photos, however, had a twist. On top of her head, the lawyer, Rodiyah Omotoyosi Mikail wore the eighteenth-century-style court wig that lawyers and judges in Britain and some of its former colonies often sport.
It was an emblematic photo for our absurd age. The wig sat atop not Rodiyah Omotoyosi Mikail’s natural hair, but her Islamic head covering. The whole effect epitomized the Islamization of the West: a woman wearing a garment that was never seen in the Western world until recently perched a
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